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Geosciences: Geosciences is studying the geology and geochemistry of the natural world, physical and human geography, and challenges faced by communities and cities and their solutions. Geoscience provides the tools that can help us learn to live sustainably with our environment, and appreciate our place within the vastness of Earth history.
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MAY 18, 2025Earth & The Environment
A new study has determined that a rapidly advancing cloud of gas from the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius overtook a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 06, 2025Earth & The Environment
Scientists long wondered whether there were places on Earth where extremely hot material from the core of the Earth move ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 06, 2025Earth & The Environment
The oldest parts of Earth's continents are called cratons, and underneath, they are rooted to the mantle...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 18, 2025Earth & The Environment
Scientists have completed the third and most detailed map of the land under the frozen ice sheet of Antarctica.Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 20, 2025Plants & Animals
Do animals play a larger role in shaping the Earth’s surface than geological processes like flooding, wind, fire, ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScFEB 16, 2025Earth & The Environment
The inner core of the Earth, which is found about 3,000 miles under the surface, sits within a molten outer core, and is ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 14, 2025Earth & The Environment
Since early February, the Greek island of Santorini has been affected by constant earthquakes...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 05, 2025Earth & The Environment
New research has analyzed melt patterns on the Greenland Ice Sheet. This study determined that cracks are opening up fas ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 03, 2025Space & Astronomy
How do seismic waves travel within the interior of Mars? This is what two recent studies published in Geophysical Resear ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 29, 2024Earth & The Environment
In the 1990s, scientists began to use the term 'atmospheric river' to refer to strips of water vapor in the air that mig ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 22, 2024Earth & The Environment
Scientists have long sought to understand the Messinian Salinity Crisis. During this ecological catastrophe...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 12, 2024Earth & The Environment
The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 squa ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 29, 2024Space & Astronomy
Where will NASA’s Artemis Program precisely land astronauts near the lunar south pole? This is what the famed spac ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 09, 2024Earth & The Environment
Scientists have identified the likely geological and environmental conditions that fostered the development of life as w ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 04, 2024Earth & The Environment
Geologists divide time into epochs or series, with subdivisions, according to major variations in rock sequences. They m ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 20, 2024Earth & The Environment
An image by the Danish army shows the site after the landslide and subsequent mega-tsunami.Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 08, 2024Earth & The Environment
Our planet has an outer layer made up of several plates, which move relative to one another. While we may take this know ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 01, 2024Earth & The Environment
A team of scientists has used data obtained from a suborbital rocket used in the NASA Endurance mission a to reveal an e ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 25, 2024Earth & The Environment
While many parts of the world are feeling the effects of climate change, air temperatures in the Arctic are warming fast ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 22, 2024Earth & The Environment
Archaea are a major branch of life, but we still have a lot to learn about these microbes, which were only discovered in ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 18, 2024Microbiology
There are microbial communities thriving at the depths of Antarctic lakes where conditions are so harsh, very little els ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 28, 2024Earth & The Environment
Oxygen production is no longer exclusive to photosynthetic organisms. Scientists discover minerals on the ocean floor th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 09, 2024Earth & The Environment
Rechargeable, reusable batteries are a crucial component of the transition to more efficient energy sources. But there a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 02, 2024Space & Astronomy
As NASA’s Perseverance rover continues to explore the surface of Mars, an open-source, online mapping software kno ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 18, 2025
Earth & The Environment
A new study has determined that a rapidly advancing cloud of gas from the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius overtook a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 06, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Scientists long wondered whether there were places on Earth where extremely hot material from the core of the Earth move
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 06, 2025
Earth & The Environment
The oldest parts of Earth's continents are called cratons, and underneath, they are rooted to the mantle...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 18, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Scientists have completed the third and most detailed map of the land under the frozen ice sheet of Antarctica.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 20, 2025
Plants & Animals
Do animals play a larger role in shaping the Earth’s surface than geological processes like flooding, wind, fire,
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 16, 2025
Earth & The Environment
The inner core of the Earth, which is found about 3,000 miles under the surface, sits within a molten outer core, and is
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 14, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Since early February, the Greek island of Santorini has been affected by constant earthquakes...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 05, 2025
Earth & The Environment
New research has analyzed melt patterns on the Greenland Ice Sheet. This study determined that cracks are opening up fas
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 03, 2025
Space & Astronomy
How do seismic waves travel within the interior of Mars? This is what two recent studies published in Geophysical Resear
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 29, 2024
Earth & The Environment
In the 1990s, scientists began to use the term 'atmospheric river' to refer to strips of water vapor in the air that mig
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 22, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Scientists have long sought to understand the Messinian Salinity Crisis. During this ecological catastrophe...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 12, 2024
Earth & The Environment
The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 squa
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 29, 2024
Space & Astronomy
Where will NASA’s Artemis Program precisely land astronauts near the lunar south pole? This is what the famed spac
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 09, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Scientists have identified the likely geological and environmental conditions that fostered the development of life as w
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 04, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Geologists divide time into epochs or series, with subdivisions, according to major variations in rock sequences. They m
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 20, 2024
Earth & The Environment
An image by the Danish army shows the site after the landslide and subsequent mega-tsunami.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 08, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Our planet has an outer layer made up of several plates, which move relative to one another. While we may take this know
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 01, 2024
Earth & The Environment
A team of scientists has used data obtained from a suborbital rocket used in the NASA Endurance mission a to reveal an e
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 25, 2024
Earth & The Environment
While many parts of the world are feeling the effects of climate change, air temperatures in the Arctic are warming fast
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 22, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Archaea are a major branch of life, but we still have a lot to learn about these microbes, which were only discovered in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 18, 2024
Microbiology
There are microbial communities thriving at the depths of Antarctic lakes where conditions are so harsh, very little els
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 28, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Oxygen production is no longer exclusive to photosynthetic organisms. Scientists discover minerals on the ocean floor th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 09, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Rechargeable, reusable batteries are a crucial component of the transition to more efficient energy sources. But there a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 02, 2024
Space & Astronomy
As NASA’s Perseverance rover continues to explore the surface of Mars, an open-source, online mapping software kno
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc